The majority of the meeting was a discussion between the Committee and Dean Willihnganz
concerning the 1% (of all salary lines) CAR reallocation within the College for next year's salary
increment. She reported that, in a recent meeting she had with the Provost, it was made clear
that we must do this reallocation.

At our last meeting, it was recommended that more information was needed for this decision
making process on the following questions: What was the size of the rollover from last year and
where did it come from; will it be there each year? What are other units doing to find their 1%;
how is A&S; different from them in having opportunities for finding areas to cut; how does being
the undergraduate unit impact us differently from other units; can other units cut student credit
hours without the same effect and resulting prohibition from the Provost?
The Dean reported that the rollover was a little over $700K last year. About half of this was from
two sources: S&E; remainders within departments that those departments retain and funds left in
lecture lump sum that was reallocated to departments. Obviously, this money is not available for
meeting the current CAR reduction. The rest of the money was within the central administration
of the College and was designated for enhancements to information technology within the
College. We were under a mandate to find funds for such an enhancement. No breakdown on
how this sum of money was found was available at the time of the meeting.

In conversations with several other Deans, it was learned that they are scrounging also. None of
them have any available money with which to make the 1% CAR reallocation. It appears that no
one has a magic bullet. Most of them are planning to cut a little here and a little there, but will
obtain most of the money needed from open lines in their units, with the hope of finding money in
the future to recoup the lines. The Provost will be sending written guidelines to each Dean, but
these are not out yet. A March 5 deadline for submission of A&S;'s plan has been set.

The current thinking in A&S; is to use open lines to provide most of the money. We will attempt
to find as much of the amount needed as possible from other sources. One example is to combine
some under-enrolled sections and cancel some others to produce some savings in lecture lump
sum spending. That savings would be applied to the reallocation, but it will likely not be a
significant proportion of the $280K needed.

The Dean requested that the Committee attempt to generate ideas for how cuts could be made
that would have minimal impact on the College and also to generate ideas of how revenue might
be increased.

The discussion turned to the issue of spending the money committed this year to technology
update within the College. Dave Baugh is still coalescing the data. A very preliminary worksheet
was distributed. It shows that the College has 75 pre-386 machines, 88 386, 179 486 and 418
after 486 machines as well as 221 Macs. Members of the Committee pointed out that many of the
oldest machines were not critical and had already been replaced, but were being kept as they
served some function. A rough estimate was that 300 machines would need replacing at a cost of
around $2K per for a total of $600K. The report also showed that 589 PCs were already
connected to ethernet, 42 were still on the isn and 146 not connected. Again, not all of the PCs
need to be connected to ethernet. It was estimated that another $50K would be needed to put all
of the College on ethernet. Add to this another $50K for software for the new PCs, and the total
is $700K. This is close to the amount budgeted for this year. The plan is still being developed.
The Committee suggested that, with the number of machines the College and other units (all units
had to reallocate for technology upgrading) would be buying soon, the University should be able
to cut a very good deal with someone.

The Committee discussed in very general terms two upcoming University changes that will have
major budgetary impacts within the College. The first is the SACS requirement that within each
department at least 75% of all student credit hours be generated by full time, permanent faculty.
The other is the new, transferrable, general education requirement policy being mandated by the
State.

The next meeting was set for Thursday, February 25, at 1:00 in the Dean's conference room.

The time for the meeting having more than expired, the meeting was adjourned.